Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1887-04-02
EASTERN AND FOREIGN NEWS.

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Trade prospects have greatly improved in
England.
James G. Blaine started westward from
New York Wednesday.
Railroad ties are being shippedIin large
quantities from Northern Michigan to Texas.
new town in Texas is named after Miss
Willard and will be strictly Prohibition
town.
The Railroad Investigation Commission
will probably be chosen by the President this
week.
The New Jersey House has passed bill
to give women the right to vote for school
trustees.
The Salvation Army is reported to be
gaining many converts among the Indians in
the Northwest
The President of the Ohio and Mississippi
Road states that only interstate passes have
been called in.
The Standard Oil Company proposes
building several hundred dwellings and sew
eral hotels at Lima, Ohio.
The Wisconsin Assembly has passed bill
prescribing fine and Imprisonment for sells
ing oleomargarine as butter.
Acting Secretary Fairchild has authorized
the free entry of certain mummies now held in
the New York Custom House.
Areturned missionary from India says that
during ten years she never saw Hindoo child
receive caress from its mother.
The challenge issued by the Royal Clyde
Club 10 race the yacht Thistle for the Amer
ican cup was accepted yesterday.
Louisiana 4-per-cent consolidated bonds
have been listed on the London Stock ex-
change--the first time since the war.
On some ranges in Montana it is reported
that one half the horses have died from the
severe cold, and that sheep are still dying by
hundreds.
Thecrew ofvanderbilt's yacht Alva struck
after coming back from the West Indies.
They complained of TOO much work and too
long hours.
| Ben. Perley Poore makes the startling as
sernon that the practice of snuff dipping has
found great SAVIOR this season among the fair
sex at Washington.
| A photograph of the Queen in state dress
has been taken by M. Wallerig. The phs:
tograph, by a process Of M. Wallerig's, has
the appearance Of an etching.
The recent discovery of gold in paying
quantities in Arkansas has caused much ex-
citement, and the country is being flooded
with prospectors and miners.
The beautiful mausoleum that is being
built at Marlborough for the remains Of the
late Emperor Napoleon III and the Prince
Imperial, is to be completed by easter.
A considerable portion of the River and
Harbor Appropriation passed at the last ses.
sion Of Congress remains unexpended, and
can be used to continue work the coming
summer.
Interstate railways crossing Illinois are
calling in the passes they have issued to mem.
bers of the Legislature. and the latterrespond
by introducing bill reducing rates of fare
on railroads.
During the past Winter the United States
Fish Commission has hatched $4,000, 900 cod
eggs and turned, the young fish loose in the
ocean. 1t is now proposed to plant halibut
in Chesapeake Bay.
Six acres of ground, which had been un-
dermined by tunneling for coal at Plainss
four miles from Wilkesbarre, Penn, caved in
Sunday. Nearly allthe buildings in the dis
turbed tract were damaged.
The President is still undecided as to the
appointment of a successor to Treasurer Jor.
dan. The Office is one that is hard 10 fill
on account of the large bond required and
the comparatively small salary
A big movements said to be on foot among
the knights Of Labor to depose the entire
Powderly Administration except Barry Of
Michigan at the October convention of the
General Assembly in Minneapolis.
At s o'clock on last Friday morning
Johann Most, editor, Anarchist and general
disturber was discharged from Blackwell's
Island, N. Y. Two months have been
knocked of his sentence for good conduct.
Richard K. Fox has notified Messrs. Bush
& Cell, the owners Of the Coronet, that he
will, upon the receipt Of their APPROVAL offer
a $4,000 cup for return race between the
yachts from Fastnet, Ireland, TO Sandy Hook.
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